Xiaolei Zhang

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the flame extension length and temperature profile in a thermal impinging flow, induced by a buoyant turbulent round jet impingement upon a horizontal plate, focusing on the scenarios that flame heights are comparable to or larger than plate-source height.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of the distance between ceiling extraction (opening) distance and heat source on the thermally-driven smoke back-layering flow length beneath the ceiling in a tunnel with combination of ceiling extraction and longitudinal ventilation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the flame extension length in the upward and the downward directions under an inclined ceiling of different angles induced by rectangular fire sources with various heat release rates and source-ceiling heights.

TL;DR: In this paper, the mass burning rate and flame tilt evolution for radiation-controlled rectangular hydrocarbon pool fires with cross air flow (ranged from 0 to 3m/s) in a reduced pressure atmosphere at high altitude (altitude: 3650m, 64kPa), were experimentally studied, with rectangular acetone pools with same surface area but different aspect ratios n ( n ǫ= L/W, ranged in 1-8).

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of horizontal cross flows on the flame geometry in pool fires was investigated, and a physical model was developed based on the characteristic length scale derived by combining cross flow air speed, the characteristic volumetric air entrainment, the turbulent flame buoyancy and the air required for stoichiometric combustion.